Tracee Fedi
MEDP 160
Anderson/lukas
Blog post #2: sound image and image-image relationships

For this assignment I chose to concentrate on a video I made in the first part of this class last semester. The video conveys a story because of the way I chose to allocate the footage. I constructed  sequences of moving images that would be pertinent in relaying my overall message. Where I chose to cut certain parts, stick footage filmed toward the end of shooting day in the beginning of the video, what song I chose, where I chose to zoom in and pan, why I kept shakey footage and where I chose to place it within the video are all just a few of many crucial decisions I had to make in order to create an effective piece that would engage my viewers and provoke their minds to run wild with what they thought was really the meaning of my work. If you notice, the beginning of the video is the only time throughout the whole video that my subject looks directly at the camera, as you continue to watch you notice that all the other footage is from a vantage point of the audience watching him as he looks deep within himself for answers, for help to make a decision to stop using drugs and to free himself from his mind's own entrapment. When filming these different shots were recorded in a different scheme than they appeared in the video, I chose to make the opening scene of footage from when I directed my subject to look straight at the camera with the plan in mind to have every additional scene loaded with images of him doing his own thing for the audience to look over him and have a less direct relationship with him and just gather ideas in their mind as to what's going on in his mind and what his next action was going to be as well as what his final revelation would be. When he was looking straight into the camera at the beginning he was making a direct connection with the viewers and engaging them in a way that perhaps wasn't so obvious right off the bat but if you watch the video a couple times you can start to realize that the relationship with the subject is indeed more direct and intimate and meant as a basis for comparison to the relationship you have with the subject after that point. Editing plays a major role in establishing these kinds of relationships and elements such as the specific music chosen and the transitions placed between shots are all crucial to the flow of the story itself as it is to the message as well.

http://vimeo.com/23831387